Chronicles Magazine Correspondence

Don't Feed the War Machine

Bill Kauffman - JULY 01, 1997

"His sympathies were for race—too lofty to descend to persons," a wit once said of the abolitionist Senator Sumner. For how else could a man countenance the slaughter of his countrymen, not only rebel Southerners but noble Robert Gould Shaw and...

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Continental Judaism, R.I.P.
Jacob Neusner - JULY 01, 1997
Religions may explode in human history—Christianity conquering Rome in scarcely 300 years, Islam the Mediterranean basin in scarcely a century. But they die only here and there, only now and then, and renew themselves in times and circumstances...
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HUD Strikes Again
Steven Greenhut - JULY 01, 1997
It may not be the start of the Great Middle American Revolution, but the reaction of residents in Lima, Ohio, to a heavy-handed public housing plan shows that some Americans are still willing to stand up for their communities.
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Allah in Piccadilly
Derek Turner - JULY 01, 1997
Just over a year after the opening of a vast, phantasmagorical Hindu temple in Neasden, north London, has come news that Britain's Muslims are flexing their muscles again.
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The Mood Disorder Clinic
Sarah McCarthy - JULY 01, 1997
A poem with a vivid title has started a brouhaha at the Mood Disorder Clinic at Western Psychiatric in Pittsburgh. "Nigger Do Not Speed In My Town" was discovered on a desk by two black employees who reported it to the EEOC as evidence of a...
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Chronicles Magazine Correspondence

Don't Feed the War Machine

Continental Judaism, R.I.P.

HUD Strikes Again

Allah in Piccadilly

The Mood Disorder Clinic

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